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PUPPET FOR GARDING ENGINES. APPLICATION FILED MAY 9. 1902.

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,UNITED STATES Iiatented November 3, 1908. I

PATENT OFFICE.

WILLIAM H. EDDY, or WORCESTER,EMASSACHUSETTS, ASSIGNOR TO iv. A. LOMBARDOOMPANY, or woncn srnn, MASSACHUSETTS, A CORPORA- TION OF MASSACHUSETTS.

PU PPET FOR cA aolNc-sucmss.

SPECIFICATION forming part of Letters Patent N 0. 743,261, dated November 3, 1903.

Application filed May 9, 1902. Serial No. 106,617. (No model.)

To all whom it may concern:

zen of the United States, residing at Worcester, in the county of Worcester and Commonwealth of Massachusetts, have invented a new and useful Improvement in Puppets for Card- WOI'k of the carding-engine with one of my I improved puppets held therein.

Fig. 2 is a perspective View of the puppet with my improved dust-guard applied thereto and shown in a closed position. Fig.3 represents the same with the dust-guard opened, and Fig. 4 is a perspective view of amodified form.

Similar reference letters refer to similar parts in the different views.

My invention relates to the bearing or stand for supporting the journals of those card-cylinders in a carding-engine known as workers or strippers, and it has forits object to provide a dust-guard by which the journal-bearing is protected from dirt or dust; and it consists in the application to the U -shaped hearing ofa pair of hinged covers, by which the open or U-shaped bearing is closed, as hereinafter described, and set forth in the annexed claims.

ing-engine in whichthe puppets or bearings for the workers or strippers are supported,"

Fig. 1 showing one such heldcin position.

B denotes a puppet provided with a shank B, which is held in the framework A in the usual manner and is provided at its upper end with a U shaped jou rnal-hearin g C,adapt ed to receive the journal D of a worker or stripper. The open end of the bearing is closed when the journal is placed in position by means of covers E E, provided at each end with armsF F, which are hinged to the sides of the puppet by screws G G. The covers E are arranged to be swung apart, on their pivotal screws G, as shown in Fig. 3, in order to allow the journal D to be inserted when the covers are brought together until their opposing edges E are brought into contact. Be it known that LWILLIAM H. EDDY, a citi- The lower ends of the arms F are extended beyond the pivotal screws G, as shown at F F, so that when the covers EE are'thrown apart sufficiently to allow the journal D to be inserted within or removed from the bearing the ends F F will be brought into contact, as shown in Fig. 3, and therebylimit the outward movement of the covers E E. When the covers E E are brought together with their edges E E in contact, the rear edges E are brought into contact with the sides of the puppet, as shown in Fig. 2, thereby mak ing a closed joint and preventing the introduction of dirt into the open bearing, and when closed the curved edges F are brought into contact with the cylindrical surface of the journal D, as shown in Fig. 2.

In Fig. 4: the construction of the dust-guard or cover is substantially the same as that shown in Figs. 2 and 3 with the exception that the opening in the bearing to receive the journal is placed at an angle with the shank B instead of parallel thereto, as shown in the preceding figures.

The ends F F of the arms F are raised above the bottom of the journal-bearing C when the covers E E are "separated to allow the journal D to be introduced, so that the pressure of the journal on the ends F F will rock the arms F and bring the covers E E together, automatically closing the bearing 0, as shown in Figs. 1 and 2, while the act of lifting the journal D out of the hearing will press the journal against the curved edges F and automatically separate the covers E E until they pass a vertical line passing the open side of the bearing to allow the journal to be inserted and removed.

2. In a puppet for carding-engines provided with a U-shaped bearing, the combinationend-of said bearing, said covers having arms at their opposite ends pivotally connected to the sides of the puppet, substantially as described.

4. The combination with the U-shaped bearing of a puppet for carding-engines, of a pair of covers E, E provided with abutting edges E, E, arms F at the ends of said covers with said arms pivotally connected to the v puppet and having projecting ends F arranged to come in contact and limit the swinging movement of said covers, substan- 2o tially as described.

5. The combination with the U-shaped bearing of a puppet for carding-engines, of a pair ofcovers pivotally connected to the puppet and adapted to close the open end of said bearing, said covers having ends F, F, adapted to be raised above the bottom of the journal-bearing when the covers are separated, so that the pressure of the journal on said ends will bring the covers together and automatically close the bearing, substantially as described.

Dated this 6th dayof May, 1902.

WILLIAM H. EDDY.

Witnesses:

M. M. SOI-IUERMANN, RUFUS B. FOWLER. 

